Device for shaping cigar-bunches.



4'Patented Feb. 18,1902.4

l inl '(Appnmionm im. ss, 1901.)

(No Modal.)

3' sham-sheet fno. 693,439.

(-.Lnplicltion l'ed Jan. 23, 1901.()

3 shuts-snm V'2.'.

(No Model.)

Y UNrTED STATES PATENTv OFFIcE.-

EMANUEL Piske, oF NEW YORK, N. Y.

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SPECIFICATION formingl part of Letters Patent No. 693,439, dated February 18, 1902..

Application filed January 23, 1901. Serial No. 44,460. (No model.)

' To all whom t may concern,.-

Be it known that I, EMANUEL PIsKo, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the v molds.

city, county, andState of New York, have invented certain new and use ful Improvements in Devices for Shaping Cigar-Bunches, of which lthe following is a specification.

In the present art of making cigars of high grade the bunches are made by skilled labor, and the laborer by himself gives the preliminary shape to the bunch, the finished shape bei-ng given by placing the bunches inthe By my invention expensive skilled labor is dispensed with. The bunch-is simply roughly put together, filler and binder, and is then placed in my machine and bythe action of that machine is shaped'in a manner equal or superioi to the work as heretofore performed and with much less time.

In the drawings forming part of this specification, Figure l is a side elevation of my machine. Fig. 2 is a plan View. Fig. 3 isan end elevation. Fig 4t is an elevation of partof the machine looking from the side opposite that shown in Fig. l. Y

A is the frame of the machine. Supported in bearings in the frame are a'series of rolls B. At one end the spindle of each roll carriesa gear-wheel C. On stub-shafts are-placed gear-wheels E, the sets of wheels interineshing, as shown in Fig. l.

F is a shaftcarrying a gear-wheel G, which meshes with the gear-wheel on the first stubshaft.

H is a power-shaft carrying a gear-wheel I, which meshes with the gear-wheel G. In a machine with a large number of rolls I place on the shaft H a belt-pulley K. On the spindle at the opposite end of the machine I provide a second belt-pulley L. By this arrangement I obviate the disadvantages arising from the use of along train of gears.

The top rail of the frame is formed on one side of the machine with a series of notches,

M of the upper rolls. "Ihe other-frail is formed forming bearings for theendsv'of the spindles` 45 with a series of hingedpieceswhich have` bearings forthe other endsof 'the spindles of the upper rolls.` By this means Iam enabled to raise the upper rolls so that the bunches may be removed Yor placed in the machine. Each upper rol] is placed opposite the intervalbetween two lowerones, as shown in Fig.

L The rolls may beof any desired shape or construction.

- The operation ofthe machineis as follows:

The upper rolls are raised and thorough bunches placed in theintervals between the lower rolls. The upper rolls are then thrown down and the machine started. The lower rolls are positively rotated and the upper y ones rotated by the friction of the bunch.

This operation quickly and eectivelyshapes i the bunch,which is then ready to be wrapped. v In order to accommodate bunches of dierent lengths, I may form on the side on which the rolls are hinged orifices in the frames, as clearly shown inFigs. 3 and 4.. In these orifices are placed adjustable stops S, which serve to keep the cigar-bunch in place between the What'I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- 1 In albunch-forming machine the combna-` v Signed at New York,. in the county and State of New York, this 19th day of January, 190,1.

y EMANUEL PIsKo.

Witnesses:

IRvING STERN, y JOHN J. RANAGAN. 

